Saturday 8th May 2021: This was another day where the 28 MHz band seemed to be wide open with lots of Sporadic-E signals from Europe. I heard 358 stations on FT8 in 29 countries but that was only listening on the FT8 frequency for a few hours.
I spent most of the day monitoring the WSPR frequency instead and the chart of stations heard is shown above. As can be seen from the chart, I heard 3 stations running less then 100-milliwatts.
Beacons: These were the beacons heard.
QRSS: The best thing about listening to WSPR is that I can monitor for QRSS signals as well as they just 500 Hz or so below the WSPR frequency. I managed to get one screen grab of ON4CDJ in Belgium.
EI7GL 28207.1 ON0RY/B 19:37 08 May IO51TU<ES>JO20CK Belgium
EI7GL 28243.0 F5ZWE/B 14:03 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN02TW France
EI7GL 28194.0 IW4EIR/B 13:04 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN54AS Italy
EI7GL 28240.0 IZ8RVA/B 13:01 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN70LI Italy
EI7GL 28227.2 IW3FZQ/B 13:00 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN55VF Italy
EI7GL 28173.1 IZ1EPM/B 12:57 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN35WD Italy
EI7GL 28257.8 DK0TEN/B 11:02 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN47NT Fed. Rep. of Germany
EI7GL 28205.0 DL0IGI/B 10:23 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN57MT Fed. Rep. of Germany
EI7GL 28241.6 F5ZUU/B 08:12 08 May IO51TU<ES>JN24IL France
QRSS: The best thing about listening to WSPR is that I can monitor for QRSS signals as well as they just 500 Hz or so below the WSPR frequency. I managed to get one screen grab of ON4CDJ in Belgium.
The Sporadic-E season has well and truly started at this stage and you can expect to see lot of signals on the 10m band from now until late July.
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